| 4.5 superb |
| Alesana Confessions |
| ALPHAWOLVES Refuge |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Deaf Havana All These Countless Nights |
| Deaf Havana Old Souls |
| Deaf Havana Fools And Worthless Liars |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| Flood of Red Throw |
| Simplistic but atmospheric melodies form the underlying core of this albums songs, while at the same time, several, well implemented breaks that shift between them and rougher hitting sections, keep things interesting and occasionally build up into thrilling climaxes. The vocals fit in perfectly, being able to deliver both placid and soaring tones for the corresponding parts. This ambient record is one to sit or lay down while listening and absorb its haunting sounds, also suitable for a longer night drive in your car or when sitting in a train. Definitely something special and recommendable. |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone |
| Imminence Heaven in Hiding |
| Kids in Glass Houses In Gold Blood |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| At first listen this might seem unspectacular and far from innovative. In fact, from a solely instrumental standpoint, this is even true. While by no means bad and with a few interesting instances here and there, the melodies on their own wouldn't justify a rating like this. If you listen to a lot of bands from a similar genre, you could even argue how standard and repetitive it sounds. But after giving it one or two more spins and paying attention to the excellent lyrics while doing so, you notice how everything fits together in such a convincing manner, that one can't disregard the honesty, authenticity and emotion behind the music. The way it is being delivered to listeners makes this album worth your time and, while not musically outstanding from an 'objective' standpoint, sticks to ones mind as something truly special. |
| The Menzingers After the Party |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Astronauts Hollow Ponds |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel |
| Black Peaks All That Divides |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Brand New Science Fiction |
| Breather The Blue |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Circa Survive Descensus |
| Conditions Fluorescent Youth |
| Copeland Ixora |
| Rating refers to the twin version of the album, since the standard one is not available for streaming. But I believe the twin is better anyway. |
| Cry of the Afflicted The Unveiling |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk |
| Dream State Primrose Path |
| Drenge Undertow |
| Emarosa 131 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Enter Shikari The Spark |
| Foxing The Albatross |
| Foxing Dealer |
| Foxing Draw Down the Moon |
| Framing Hanley The Sum of Who We Are |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves |
| Get Scared Built For Blame, Laced With Shame |
| Hawthorne Heights Skeletons |
| Hawthorne Heights Hurt |
| Probably the best thing they've ever done. Their EP triology is really great, so stop hating them because it's trendy on Sputnik. This is such a fun, passionate and honest record, it deserves credit. |
| Her Bright Skies Causing A Scene |
| This album shines with it's atmospheric tone throughout all of the songs, which is conveyed by the combined use of disortion and frequent tapping riffs. You can almost feel that these guys are from sweden since the whole record has some cold vibe to it, that, on some occasions, invites you to let your thoughts fly away and start dreaming while looking into the night when sitting in a bus or train. Although the formular with some tapping riff and the obligatory powerchord in the background repeats on almost every song, which is why this can't have a better rating, most of the tracks still feel distinct and deliver a couple of pretty epic moments, such as the ending of 'Hollywood Dreamin''. Also, the lyrics, while not cringeworthy, are fairly simple and sometimes feel like placeholder that exist so there's something to sing. But the aforementioned atmosphere and catchy songwriting with some stellar moments here and there still lift this up to be an excellent record. While this is their best release yet, the other LP's are definitely worth checking out as well. |
| Hurtwave Night Therapy I |
| I Divide Last One Standing |
| This deserves so much more attention. Although the lyrics may not be that deep and the song structure is by no means groundbreaking most of the time, one can't deny the addicting catchiness flowing through a majority of the songs accompanied by some nice guitar riffs, virtually forcing you to relisten to this instrumentally very solid and, more than anything, absolutely fun, fast-paced rock record. |
| Imminence Turn the Light On |
| Kids in Glass Houses Peace |
| Such a wonderful album, failed in gaining popularity due to poor marketing. It could've made them as big as they deserve to be. It's the perfection of simple but catchy sing-along pop-punk with a lot of goosebump-moments. While You Me At Six are being praised by fans for their quite lazy and uninspired release Cavalier Youth, Kids In Glass Houses are breaking up this fall. What a shame... |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Mallory Knox Signals |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland |
| Old Gray Slow Burn |
| Our Last Night Younger Dreams |
| Our Last Night Oak Island |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| PVRIS White Noise |
| PVRIS Hallucinations |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature |
| Sorority Noise Joy, Departed |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| THECITYISOURS Wildfire |
| The glimpse of hope that metalcore needed so desperately. |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell |
| Too Close to Touch Haven't Been Myself |
| We Are The Ocean Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow |
| You Me At Six Hold Me Down |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI |
| Alesana The Emptiness |
| American Football American Football |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Convinced |
| As It Is Never Happy, Ever After |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies |
| blink-182 California |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
| Circa Survive The Amulet |
| Combichrist No Redemption (Official DmC Soundtrack) |
| Conditions Full of War |
| Crown the Empire Retrograde |
| What a surprise! With their newest effort, Crown The Empire strikingly proves, that even risecore bands are able to step out of their comfortzone and deliver something enticingly fresh. The whole album shines with a cohesive, space-ambient style, while all tracks remain varied and keep their own identity. Instead of overloading everything with edm-sounds to blatantly shove us their intention of change into our faces, electronic effects are placed exactly where they belong and fit, never feeling inadequate. After such a successful venture beyond the sky, one can hardly imagine what should come next. But for now, let's just enjoy a little bit more of neat spacecore. |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky |
I hate that I like the band since not writing your own music usually triggers an instant „nope, next please“ from
me but since Barone is basically an inofficial member of the band and I really like the hooks I can kinda deal with
it, even though their statement about Escamilla made them absolutely dislikable as people.
The album isn’t as good as Retrograde, which had a more cohesive style and theme to it that gave the sounds
and production a reason. Cover and lyrics, more often than not, tend to be cringy and you can’t ignore how
overproduced everything sounds. But overall most of the hooks and riffs are great and fun to listen to. I like it,
even if I don’t like liking it. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| Dayseeker Dark Sun |
| Deaf Havana Meet Me Halfway, At Least |
| Deaf Havana Rituals |
| Drenge Strange Creatures |
| Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra |
| Emarosa Versus |
| Emery You Were Never Alone |
| Emery Eve |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies |
| flatsound hummingbird |
| Foals What Went Down |
| Foxing Nearer My God |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon |
| Get Scared Demons |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely |
| Hawthorne Heights Zero |
| Hawthorne Heights Hate |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| Kids in Glass Houses Dirt |
| Mallory Knox Asymmetry |
| Following the debut album Signals, the five guys from Mallory Knox live up to expectations with their sophomore release Asymmetry. All songs, except for maybe one, stand out from one another thanks to some experimentation here and there, or at least deliver catchy and also interesting refrains - which still resemble the greatest strength of this band. Another noteworthy aspect is a well done production, which brings a kind of clean sound to the instrumentation and results in an surprisingly well working contrast with the somewhat rough voice of singer Mikey Chapman. While not thoroughly innovative, there's widely enough identity to it so that you couldn't really ask for more from a record of this nature. |
| Mallory Knox Pilot |
| Mallory Knox Wired |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface |
| Mayday Parade What It Means To Fall Apart |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin |
| Of Monsters and Men Fever Dream |
| Our Last Night Age Of Ignorance |
| Our Last Night Let Light Overcome |
| Passion Pit Kindred |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
| Savage Hands The Truth in Your Eyes |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Out Of Light |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
| Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer |
| The Early November Imbue |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon |
| The Ongoing Concept Handmade |
| The Ongoing Concept Again |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign |
| THECITYISOURS Hollow Hope |
| THECITYISOURS Low |
| There For Tomorrow There For Tomorrow |
| Tigers Jaw spin |
| Tiny Moving Parts Tiny Moving Parts |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision |
| Veridian Novella |
| We Are The Ocean Cutting Our Teeth |
| We Are The Ocean Ark |
| Yashin Put Your Hands Where I Can See Them |
| Yashin The Renegades |
| You Me At Six Take Off Your Colours |
| You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep |
| Young Guns All Our Kings Are Dead |
